[Python-Dev] Weekly Python Bug/Patch Summary

[Skip Montanaro]

Bug/Patch Summary
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531 open / 4217 total bugs (+26)
206 open / 2405 total patches (+5)

New Bugs
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robotparser interactively prompts for username and password (2003-09-28)
	http://python.org/sf/813986
Grouprefs in lookbehind assertions (2003-09-28)
	http://python.org/sf/814253
LDFLAGS ignored in Makefile (2003-09-28)
	http://python.org/sf/814259
new.function raises TypeError for some strange reason... (2003-09-28)
	http://python.org/sf/814266
5454 - documentation wrong for ossaudiodev mixer device (2003-09-29)
	http://python.org/sf/814606
'import Tkinter' causes windows missing-DLL popup (2003-09-29)
	http://python.org/sf/814654
RedHat 9 blows up at dlclose of pyexpat.so (2003-09-29)
	http://python.org/sf/814726
OSF/1 test_dbm segfaults (2003-09-30)
	http://python.org/sf/814996
bug with ill-formed rfc822 attachments (2003-09-30)
	http://python.org/sf/815563
thread unsafe file objects cause crash (2003-09-30)
	http://python.org/sf/815646
test_locale and en_US (2003-10-01)
	http://python.org/sf/815668
SCO_SV: many modules cannot be imported (2003-10-01)
	http://python.org/sf/815753
tkMessageBox functions reject "type" and "icon" keywords (2003-10-01)
	http://python.org/sf/815924
ImportError: No module named _socket (2003-10-01)
	http://python.org/sf/815999
Missing import in email example (2003-10-01)
	http://python.org/sf/816344
Fatal Python error: GC object already tracked (2003-10-02)
	http://python.org/sf/816476
mark deprecated modules in indexes (2003-10-02)
	http://python.org/sf/816725
webbrowser.open hangs under certain conditions (2003-10-02)
	http://python.org/sf/816810
term.h present but cannot be compiled (2003-10-02)
	http://python.org/sf/816929
Float Multiplication (2003-10-02)
	http://python.org/sf/816946
invalid \U escape gives 0=length unistr (2003-10-03)
	http://python.org/sf/817156
Email.message example missing arg (2003-10-03)
	http://python.org/sf/817178
re.finditer hangs on final empty match (2003-10-03)
	http://python.org/sf/817234
Google kills socket lookup (2003-10-04)
	http://python.org/sf/817611
Need "new style note" (2003-10-04)
	http://python.org/sf/817742
select behavior undefined for empty lists (2003-10-04)
	http://python.org/sf/817920
ossaudiodev FileObject does not support closed const (2003-10-04)
	http://python.org/sf/818006
installer wakes up Windows File Protection (2003-10-05)
	http://python.org/sf/818029
use Windows' default programs location. (2003-10-05)
	http://python.org/sf/818030
os.listdir on empty strings. Inconsistent behaviour. (2003-10-05)
	http://python.org/sf/818059
mailbox._Subfile readline() bug (2003-10-05)
	http://python.org/sf/818065

New Patches
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invalid use of setlocale (2003-09-11)
	http://python.org/sf/804543
deprecated modules (2003-09-29)
	http://python.org/sf/814560
Extension logging.handlers.SocketHandler (2003-10-01)
	http://python.org/sf/815911
popen2 work, fixes bugs 768649 and 761888 (2003-10-01)
	http://python.org/sf/816059
urllib2.URLError don't calll IOError.__init__ (2003-10-02)
	http://python.org/sf/816787
dynamic popen2 MAXFD (2003-10-03)
	http://python.org/sf/817329
urllib2 does not allow for absolute ftp paths (2003-10-03)
	http://python.org/sf/817379
sprout more file operations in SSLFile, fixes 792101 (2003-10-04)
	http://python.org/sf/817854

Closed Bugs
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urllib/urllib2(?) timeouts (2003-09-10)
	http://python.org/sf/803634
invalid use of setlocale (2003-09-11)
	http://python.org/sf/804543
Crash if getvar of a non-existent Tcl variable (2003-09-16)
	http://python.org/sf/807314
exit() raises exception (2003-09-21)
	http://python.org/sf/810214
2.3.1 configure bug (2003-09-23)
	http://python.org/sf/811028
HP/UX vs configure (2003-09-23)
	http://python.org/sf/811160
webbrowser.open_new() opens in an existing browser window (2003-09-24)
	http://python.org/sf/812089

Closed Patches
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popen fix for multiple quoted arguments (2001-09-29)
	http://python.org/sf/466451
Add IPPROTO_IPV6 option to the socketmodule (2003-09-27)
	http://python.org/sf/813445
entry size for cursors (2003-09-27)
	http://python.org/sf/813877